Quotes with first-person

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • James Russell Lowell Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Joseph De Maistre False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Doug Horton First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • Carl Bernstein For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • George Eliot Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Molière I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Buddha I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Cato the Elder I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Stephen Hawking I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Barack Obama I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
    Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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